Elsa Osorio

In 1982 she debuted with the volume of short stories Ritos privados (t: Private rites), for which she was awarded the most prestigious literature prize of her country, the Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina, in the following year.

She later published Beatriz Guido (1991), a novel of this Argentine writer's life, and a collection of political and linguistic essays Las malas lenguas (1994; t: The wicked tongues).

It tells the story of the fate and search for identity of a young woman, born to opponents of the Junta, who is taken away by the family of an officer who is loyal to the regime.

Like the former work, it unfolds over various temporal planes and tells of two families of differing social backgrounds whose lives are intertwined through tango, beginning with the rise of Argentina in the late eighteenth century and leading up to the present day.

In 2009 she published "Callejón con salida" a collection of short stories that received the Premio Roma for foreign literature in 2010.